I gave up pretty early in the first part of my marathon training on the diet idea. It was unadvised by my training plan - I.e. THE book - considering that running is hard enough, don't put any additional mental stress on top of it. "You need fuel" they say "let's the body balance itself".
Right, it is pretty hard to run 12 miles with the hunger turning your stomach inside out.
 |
| **not related** The end of the Front street one mile. Run, Forrest, Run No kidding, this race is sponsored by Bubba Gump restaurant. |
Anyway, all good things have an end, and having one month to fill between now and the second part of the marathon training, which will end the race day, obviously, I decided to go back on losing those 10 pounds. At least, 5. My reasoning is that it will be way easier to complete this damn marathon without those 5 pounds than with them.
For this,I devised a new plan.
First, I looked at the planning. I still have to go 8 weeks of dedicated marathon training. Marathon is mid-January, And I like the idea of a couple of weeks of buffer, specially around the holidays. By the way, most of the people get their over weight quota around this period, it will be challenging not to. Technically, November and December will be where I will be ramping up my running mileage and I don't want to look at my intakes too closely. Hopefully, the fact that I will be running a lot will prevent me to gain weight and might even help to lose some. I will be running more than 30 miles a week at that point, every week, if everything goes according to THE plan.
Which give us October. One month, 4 weeks, 5 pounds.
Cool.
Should be doable.
Nice plan. To give you some data points: I started commuting by bike last May, 10 * 30 mins/weeks of strenuous biking (It gets pretty competitive on SF bike lanes). I was 145 pounds then... I am still 145 pounds but a bit slimmer and I am eating about twice more.
ReplyDeleteSo my guess is that if you manage to keep you food intake steady, you'll lose the pounds naturally without noticing.